Subject: Language Arts

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Essential Question:
How do sentence diagrams help represent and visualize the structure of a sentence?

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Objectives:

• Students will diagram sentences with subjects, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and prepositional phrases.
• Students will demonstrate how modifiers relate to the word they describe in a sentence.

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Materials:

• Homework from previous night (handout)
• Notebook/iPad
• Paper/pen
• Whiteboard/Markers
• Videos

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Activities:

• Review homework from yesterday (diagramming with adjectives and adverbs)
• Take notes on diagramming sentences with prepositional phrases.
• Practice diagramming on individual whiteboards.
• Homework

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Review previous night's homework:

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Diagramming with Prepositional Phrases:
Watch the video below for instructions on how to diagram prepositional phrases. Be sure to take notes while watching the video.

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Homework:
Create a ThingLink for the following sentence and label each word in the diagram and explain your rationale for the placement of the words in the diagram.

The sentence you need to diagram is:The very ugly vulture flew in circles above the trees.